WILHELM See also:

• SCHERER, EDMOND HENRI ADOLPHE (1815-1889)
• WILHELM SCHERER (1841-1886)

SCHERER (1841-1886)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German philologist and historian of literature, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Schonborn in See also:

• LOWER

Lower See also:

• AUSTRIA
• AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ")
• AUSTRIA, UPPER (Ger. Oberosterreich or Osterreich ob der Enns, " Austria above the river Enns ")

Austria on the 26th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1841 . He was educated at the See also:

• ACADEMIC

academic gymnasium at See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna and afterwards at the university, where he was the favourite See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of the distinguished Germanist, Karl Viktor Mi.illenhoff (1818—1884) . Having taken the degree of See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor philosophiae, he became Privatdozent for German See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language and literature in 1864 . In 1868 he was appointed See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor, and in 1872 received a See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call in a like capacity to See also:

• STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg, and in 1877 to See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, where in 1884 he was made member of the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Sciences . He died at Berlin on the 6th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1886 . See also:

• SCHERER, EDMOND HENRI ADOLPHE (1815-1889)
• SCHERER, WILHELM (1841-1886)

Scherer's See also:

• LITERARY

literary activity falls into three categories: in Vienna he was the philologist, at Strassburg the professor of literature and in Berlin the author . His earliest See also:

• WORK

work was a See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography of the See also:

• GREAT

great philologist See also:

• JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

Jakob See also:

• GRIMM, FRIEDRICH MELCHIOR, I
• GRIMM, JACOB LUDWIG CARL (1785-1863)
• GRIMM, WILHELM CARL (1786-1859)

Grimm (1865, and ed . 1885) ; he next, in See also:

• CON

con-junction with his former teacher Mullenhoff, published Denkmaler deutscher Poesie and See also:

• PROSE

Prose aus dem 8. bis 12 . Jahrhundert (1864, 3rd ed . 1892) . His first great work was, however, Zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache (Berlin, 1868; 3rd ed., 189o), being a See also:

• HISTORY

history of the German language with especial reference to phonetic See also:

• LAWS

laws . He contributed the See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section on Alsatian literature to O .

Lorenz's Geschichte See also:

• DES

des Elsasses (1871, 3rd ed . 1886) . Other important See also:

• WORKS

works are Geistliche Poeten der deutschen Kaiserzeit (Strassburg, 1874–1875) ; Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung See also:

• IM(K2+a2+h2—2 ah cos 0)

im zz. and 12 . Jahrhundert (1875); and Vortrage and Aufsatze zur Geschichte des geistigen Lebens in Deutschland and Osterreich (1874) . Scherer's best-known work is his history of German literature, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur (Berlin, 1883; Ioth ed., 1905; See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation by Mrs F . C . See also:

• CONYBEARE, WILLIAM DANIEL (1787–1857)
• CONYBEARE, WILLIAM JOHN (1815–1857)

Conybeare, 1883; new ed., 1906) . This work is distinguished by the clearness with which details are co-ordinated with a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general and comprehensive survey of German literature from the beginning to the See also:

• DEATH

death of See also:

• GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe . Besides many other philological See also:

• TREATISES

treatises, Scherer wrote largely on Goethe (Aus Goethes Fruhzeit 1879; Aufsatze fiber Goethe, 1886), and took an active See also:

• PART

part in the See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of the Goethe archives at See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar . A small See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on Poetik, a biography of Karl Miillenhoff, and two volumes of Kleine Schriften were published after his death . See V . Basch, Wilhelm Scherer et la philologie See also:

• ALLEMANDE (Fr. for danse allemande, or German dance)

allemande (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1889), and the See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article by Eduard See also:

• SCHRODER
• SCHRODER, FRIEDRICH LUDWIG (1744-1816)
• SCHRODER, SOPHIE (1781-1868)

Schroder in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie .